Get Past Your Past – October 26 Devotions

Welcome to my blog and the last Monday of October! Can you believe it? I took a “blog break” over the weekend to take care of some other responsibilities, and to spend time with my darling hubby.

Arriving at this last week – and only two months left in the year – makes me reflect on the year that’s nearly gone, both good and bad. It’s comforting to know that we can learn from our past, but we don’t have to stay stuck in the past, reliving or rehearsing our faults.

Here’s the devotional thought for this last Monday in October…

“A lot of people let the past dictate their future.

Don’t do that!!

Get past your past.

We all have a past,

but we also have a future.

We are said to be new creatures

when we enter into a relationship with Christ.

Old things pass away.

We have an opportunity for a new beginning.

God makes arrangements for each of us to have a fresh start,

but we must be willing to let go of the past and go on.

We make a way for the new

by believing what God says about it.

Don’t let your past failures

leave you hopeless about your future success.

Your future has no room in it for the failures of the past.

Just because you have failed at something

does not make you a failure.

Whatever Satan has stolen through deception,

God will restore doubled,

if you are willing to press forward, forgetting the past.

You have to let go in order to go on!”

–Joyce Meyer in “New Day New You”

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My reflections:

This devotional and others like it make me think how it sounds good to say “leave the past behind” but it’s not always so easy to do! Sometimes it’s challenging to take the good, learn from the bad, but disconnect the feelings that go along with those events of the past. Yet I know we can’t truly grow and move forward if we’re still chained to the past.

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So what are YOUR thoughts?

Do you find it easy to let go of the past and move forward? Can you take the good and learn from the bad, to have a brighter future?

28 thoughts on “Get Past Your Past – October 26 Devotions”

I can let the past go when it comes to my day-to-day life, and then someone from my family visits and they bring the past with them. It can take me up to 2 days to recover from such visits, which tells me I still have work to do.

My feeling is that I am absorbing their issues rather than projecting my presence/presents. I allow it in rather than giving out.

I’ve been working (actively forcing myself at times) to focus my thoughts, my attitudes to the positive and you know what – life is better! Even bad days are better 🙂Natasha recently posted..My Favorite Sunday Supper

Actually my blog began with two goals in mind, I was going through a dark time and I sought ‘positive quotes’ and while the amount of quotes I found were staggering, the quotes were just regurgitated by other people or at best added to a pretty graphic but there was nothing beyond the quote, nothing that applied them to daily life, so I started a blog with daily affirmational meditations to help people ‘go past the quote’ I named my blog Ascending Butterfly because that is how I perceive us all ‘on an upwards journey’. I had no idea just how many people were seeking the same support, something that wasn’t just a quote, something with more ‘meat’. Glad to have found your blog today, encouraging words indeed!Tracy @ Ascending Butterfly recently posted..#ad: @JENGA is a 2015 National Toy Hall of Fame Finalist Help them win the @museumofplay #toyhalloffame top honor!

While sometimes the past can be annoying ( lol ), I think it’s there for one sole purpose – and that is to teach us life lessons to make us better individuals.

Without the past, we won’t have a gauge or point of comparison of where we should be doing better so while it could be painful at times, it’s okay to look back once in a while and we’ll be reminded of how much better & brighter that future will be.R U S S recently posted..Crowdsource the BLISS of a #LiveFreePH

Love the post. It’s just not healthy holding on to past hurts. I’ve had to go through this with family, and with friends. And it’s really hard to let it go sometimes. But I agree, you just gotta do it!Jolleen Ruiz recently posted..“Goodnight Lad” the Magical Children’s Book